Download or read book A Short History of Czechoslovakia written by Kamil Krofta and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of Czechoslovakia written by Kamil Krofta and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic: p. 189-198.
Download or read book The History of Switzerland written by Andrew Green and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sate Your Hunger for Knowledge With This Complete Guide to Switzerland's History and Find Out What's Great About This Unique Country. Do you know what's so great about Switzerland? Well, first of all, the flag is a big plus! Mountains, watches, secret bank accounts, cheese, and chocolate - these are just some of the many great things that this country is famous for. The most interesting thing about this small country is that Switzerland always remained neutral even through history's most turbulent periods. How did such a small and cut-off land become so central (and not just in its location) to the events of the western world? In The History of Switzerland, you will be taken on a magnificent journey through Switzerland's history that will answer all questions you may have - from Switzerland's humble beginnings to the modern nation that it is today. So prepare yourself for a unique and incredible journey that will sate your hunger for knowledge and teach you everything about Switzerland. Here are some of the topics you can find in this historical guide: Switzerland's humble beginnings and early history The Swiss Confederacy and Habsburg interference The warriors of Switzerland, Swiss mercenaries, and Swiss Papal Guard Defeat of emperor Maximilian Peasant uprisings and the Thirty Years' War Switzerland's role in World War I, War World II, and between wars Cold War in Switzerland Switzerland and the European Union Present and future of Switzerland And much more! If you want to embark on a unique journey through history and learn everything about Switzerland, then this book will be the perfect guide on that journey. What are you waiting for? Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click," and Get Your Copy Now!
Download or read book Czechoslovakia written by J. F. Bradley and published by Classworks. This book was released on 1986-07-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Czech Reader written by Jan Bažant and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Prague in Danger written by Peter Demetz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then—a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories—and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under German occupation with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain. Demetz expertly interweaves a superb account of the German authorities' diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague's evolving resistance and underground opposition. Along with his private experiences, he offers the heretofore untold history of an effervescent, unstoppable Prague whose urbane heart went on beating despite the deportations, murders, cruelties, and violence: a Prague that kept its German- and Czech-language theaters open, its fabled film studios functioning, its young people in school and at work, and its newspapers on press. This complex, continually surprising book is filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenge of occupation and of war.
Download or read book A Brief History of the Czech Lands to 2000 written by Petr Čornej and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief history of the Czech Lands has been compiled by leading Czech historians. Its brevity and clarity result from their highly skillful refinement and distillation of profound and detailed knowledge. This little book is one that the reader can either read from start to finish or use as reference for years to come.
Download or read book A Short History of Czechoslovakia written by Václav Novák and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Czechoslovakia written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coasts of Bohemia written by Derek Sayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the Czech people, examining the significance of the small central European nation's artistic, literary, and political developments from its origins through approximately 1960.
Download or read book Czechoslovakia written by Michael Brenner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992—from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again.The common Western view of Czechoslovakia has been that of a small nation that was sacrificed at Munich in 1938 and betrayed to the Soviets in 1948, and which rebelled heroically against the repression of the Soviet Union during the Prague Spring of 1968. Mary Heimann dispels these myths and shows how intolerant nationalism and an unhelpful sense of victimhood led Czech and Slovak authorities to discriminate against minorities, compete with the Nazis to persecute Jews and Gypsies, and pave the way for the Communist police state. She also reveals Alexander Dubcek, held to be a national hero and standard-bearer for democracy, to be an unprincipled apparatchik. Well written, revisionist, and accessible, this groundbreaking book should become the standard history of Czechoslovakia for years to come.
Download or read book National Romanticism written by Balázs Trencsényi and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 67 texts, including hymns, manifestos, articles or extracts from lengthy studies exemplify the relation between Romanticism and the national movements in the cultural space ranging from Poland to the Ottoman Empire. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author, and by an analysis of the context in which the respective work was born.The end of the 18th century and first decades of the 19th were in many respects a watershed period in European history. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the dramatic convulsions of the French Revolution had shattered the old bonds and cast doubt upon the established moral and social norms of the old corporate society. In culture a new trend, Romanticism, was successfully asserting itself against Classicism and provided a new key for a growing number of activists to 're-imagine' their national community, reaching beyond the traditional frameworks of identification (such as the 'political nation', regional patriotism, or Christian universalism). The collection focuses on the interplay of Romantic cultural discourses and the shaping of national ideology throughout the 19th century, tracing the patterns of cultural transfer with Western Europe as well as the mimetic competition of national ideologies within the region.
Download or read book Czechoslovakia written by Mary Heimann and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist history, this volume sets out to debunk many of the myths about Czechoslovakia.
Download or read book History of Czechoslovakia in Outline written by Josef V. Polišenský and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Velvet Revolutions written by Miroslav Vanek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, marking the beginning of the country's journey towards democracy. Though members of the elite have spoken about the transition to democracy, the experiences of ordinary people have largely gone untold. In Velvet Revolutions, Miroslav Vanek and Pavel Mücke examine the values of everyday citizens who lived under so-called real socialism, as well as how their values changed after the 1989 collapse. Based on 300 interviews, Vanek and Mücke give voice to everyone from farmers to managers, service workers to marketing personnel, manual laborers to members of the armed forces. Compelling and diverse, the oral histories touch upon the experience - and absence - of freedom, the value of family and friends, the experience of free time, and perceptions of foreign nations. Data from opinion polls conducted between 1970 and 2013 factor into the book's analysis, creating a well-rounded view of the ways in which popular thoughts, trends, and attitudes changed as Czech society transitioned from communism to democracy. From this rich foundation, Velvet Revolutions builds a multi-layered view of Czech history before 1989 and during the subsequent period of democratic transformation.
Download or read book A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945 written by Hans Renner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945 is a comprehensive account of Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, tracing events from 1945 to 1990. The author focuses on the last twenty years in particular, when the Prague Spring offered a brief period of liberalization, but was followed by harder times, with the hope of change fading, and society becoming paralyzed. Dr. Renner describes vividly the country’s fortunes under the Soviet rule of Stalin and Brezhnev, and how it pioneered the policy of glasnost during the Prague Spring of 1968. The book concludes with a special look at the influence of Gorbachev’s glasnost on the regime of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Renner combines a chronological overview with a passionate yet scholarly discussion of underlying political, economic, and cultural issues and developments, making this book invaluable as an authoritative and lucid account of Czechoslovak history, as well as an explanation of the role this country and in events played in the shaping of modern Europe.
Download or read book Slovakia in History written by Mikuláš Teich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak state from 1918–39, and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.
